Title :
Redesigning a piece picking area replenishment process supported by a WMS
Author :
Carrasco-Gallego, Ruth ; Ponce-Cueto, Eva
Author_Institution :
Ind. Eng. & Bus. Adm. Dept., Univ. Politec. de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
The benefits in terms of cost savings that a firm can achieve in order picking processes by choosing the right combination of picking, storage assignment and routing policies will be lost if picking racks are not being properly fulfilled. This is the case of a renowned luxury cosmetics firm, in which the shortage of products in manual picking racks brings as a consequence a reduction in system performance. In this paper, a new procedure for picking racks replenishment is proposed. The information required for deploying the procedure was retrieved from the warehouse management system (WMS) installed in the facility. The results obtained after implementation are also presented.
Keywords :
cost-benefit analysis; order picking; cost savings; order picking process; picking racks replenishment; piece picking area replenishment; routing policy; storage assignment; warehouse management system; Costs; Customer satisfaction; Fiber reinforced plastics; Industrial engineering; Information retrieval; Productivity; Routing; System performance; Time measurement; Warehousing; forward-reserve problem (FRP); order picking; replenishment; warehousing;
Conference_Titel :
Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2009. CIE 2009. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Troyes
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4135-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4136-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICCIE.2009.5223856
